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Plans to seize Wikileaks founder Julian Assange 'under all circumstances' the moment he leaves the Ecuadorean embassy in London have accidentally been revealed by a British police officer. The uniformed Met officer was pictured holding a clipboard detailing possible plan if Assange could try to escape from the building. The policeman's handwritten tactical brief was captured by a photographer of a well-known news agency, as he stood outside the Knightsbridge embassy on Friday. According to The Telegraph, the notes said should the maverick Australian should be taken even if he emerges in a vehicle, under diplomatic immunity or in a diplomatic bag, which may involve "risk to life". The operational guidance, marked "restricted", also warned of the "possibility of distraction", suggesting that the Yard fears Assange's supporters could try to create a commotion outside the embassy, providing cover under which he could flee, the paper said. According to the report, further details of the notes, which were obscured by the officer holding them, appeared to relate to the "everyday business" of the embassy and the possible need for "additional support" from an unknown agency known as SS10. The blunder by the policeman is the latest embarrassment for the British authorities in the diplomatic stand-off over Assange. After the failure of his two-year appeal against extradition to Sweden , where he was accused of sexually assaulting two women, he was allowed to walk into Ecuador 's embassy and claim asylum in June. He has remained there ever since and the Foreign Office was denounced by Ecuador for supposedly threatening to withdraw the building's diplomatic protection and "storm" inside to arrest Assange.

Cop spills UK plan to arrest Assange 'under all circumstances'